Barbara Crawford

Barbara Crawford, a painter, received her MA from James Madison University and an MFA from Vermont College. A founding member of Co-Art in Staunton, she is Professor of art history and studio art at Southern Virginia University. She has been artist-in-residence for the Tyrone Guthrie Art Center in Ireland, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. She was awarded a Visiting Artists residency at the American Academy in Rome and won Best of Show in two national juried shows: the Rio Brazos National at Tarleton State University in Texas and the Colors of Fall at Carnegie Hall Art Center in Lewisburg, West Virginia. Crawford worked for the Louvre on Cy Twombly’s ceiling design.theamericanscholar.org/a-twombly-ceiling/